Museum of foreign literature and science by Unknown

A number of thousand local americans fought on either side throughout the American Civil battle. They got here from a number of the tribes within the Indian Territory of present-day japanese Oklahoma. They have been prepared into regiments of fixed riflemen Гўв‚¬" troops that can struggle from the saddle or dismounted within the plains and rolling hills.

"Paul Hutton’s research of Phil Sheridan within the West is authoritative, readable, and a tremendous contribution to the literature of westward enlargement. even supposing situated in Chicago, Sheridan performed a vital function within the commencing of the West. His command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies and from Mexico to Canada, and all of the Indian Wars of the good Plains fell below his course.

Nephew to Sitting Bull, leader of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) used to be a well-known warrior in his personal correct. He have been at the warpath opposed to whites and different Indians for greater than a decade while he fought the best conflict of his lifestyles. at the afternoon of June 25, 1876, 5 troops of the U. S. 7th Cavalry less than the command of George Armstrong Custer rode into the valley of the Little immense Horn River, expectantly looking ahead to to rout the Indian encampments there.

One of the so much celebrated captivity narratives, Rowlandson's account of her abduction by way of the Narragansett Indians in 1676 information her hardships and anguish, besides worthwhile observations on local American existence. additionally contains 3 different recognized narratives of captivity one of the Delawares, the Iroquois, and the Indians of the Allegheny.

The king herewith confounded, commanded the Jew to get him out of his sight: but the lather perceiving that the king could not perswade his son to forsake the Christian faith, required to have his money again. To whom the king said, he had done so much as he promised to do; that was, to perswade him so far as he might. At length, when he would have had the king dealt further in the matter, the king, to stop his mouth, tender9d back to him the half of his money, and kept the other himself. " , When a see or living, in the gift of this wary king, fell vacant, he was in the habit of retaining it in his own hands until he became pretty well acquainted with its revenues, when he sold it to the best bidder.

Anno 39. 1000 in Quinden. S. Mich, the same year, ^1000 &c. and that the Jews shou9 d forfeit ^500 for every default of payment. " For it is a singular fact, that so absolutely were the Jews considered the property of the monarch, that he, more than once, made them over to others, either as security for a loan, or farmed them out for a given time in payment of his debts. They were handed over, in turns, in this manner, to the brother of Henry, the Earl Richard, to his son Edward, and to the Caturcensian, the deeds of which conveyances are still extant.

D. 740, Christians are forbid to be present at the Jewish feasts. This is the earliest mention of the Jews in the annals of Great Britain. When they did enter Great Britain, it is impossible to ascertain. There have been antiquaries, who have concluded that the Jews lived in England during the first settlements of the Romans. A Roman brick, it seems, was found in digging the foundation of a house in London, having on one side a bas relief, representing Sampson driving the foxes into a field of corn.